Articles filed under Charities and Fundraising
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'We'll feed anyone': That's the motto at Aurora pantry where demand has more than quadrupledJun 09, 2020 6:00 am - The Aurora Area Interfaith Food Pantry served 2,000 people a week when Cat Battista became executive director 18 months ago. Now it serves 9,000. For the past two mont...
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Constable: Great Scott! Suburban father and son build 'Back to the Future' guitarJun 09, 2020 5:33 am - As a teenager in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Steve Doner played trumpet in the high school band, and he learned enough in an electronics class to start a business setting up sp...
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St. Charles Kiwanis serves the communityJun 08, 2020 11:00 pm - Kiwanis has come a long way from the men-only, business networking club founded in Detroit in 1915. Since the early 20th century, the club has spread around the world wi...
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DuPage County Sheriff's new program benefits York Township Food PantryJun 08, 2020 11:00 pm - DuPage County Sheriff James Mendrick recently hand delivered over 250 prepackaged meals along with his team to the York Township Food Pantry to be distributed to familie...
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FIT4MOM's Suzanne Lenisa wins Bloomingdale Area Women in Business scholarshipJun 08, 2020 11:00 pm - Bloomingdale Area Women in Business named Suzanne Lenisa of FIT4MOM as this year's scholarship winner. Lenisa will be using the scholarship to achieve an American Counci...
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Salute, Inc., achieves high Seal of Transparency honorJun 07, 2020 11:00 pm - As its May campaign "Running Without a Finish Line" demonstrated to the community, Salute, Inc., is not interested in letting the COVID-19 pandemic inhibit its ability t...
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Fox Valley Beaux Arts names scholarship winnersJun 07, 2020 11:00 pm - Fox Valley Beaux Arts, a nonprofit women's club founded in 1984 to foster and support the arts, recently presented eight Elgin area students with college scholarships va...
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Operation Support Our Troops-America to host Shop and Drive Collection June 13 in LisleJun 07, 2020 11:00 pm - Operation Support Our Troops-America will host a collection drive called "Shop and Drive" to collect needed items for the nonprofit's Comfort and Care Package Program. ...
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The pandemic is testing the generosity of America's billionaires: A survey of the 50 richest AmericansJun 07, 2020 6:28 am - America's love-hate affair with billionaires took an uncomfortable twist this spring: As the coronavirus spread across the country, both fans and critics wondered what t...
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What the 50 richest Americans have given for COVID-19 reliefJun 07, 2020 6:23 am - A Washington Post survey of the nation's 50 wealthiest people and families, who have a collective net worth of nearly $1.6 trillion, found that their publicly announced ...